The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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A Penguin Classics deluxe boxed set of Robert Fagles' translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic.
If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic.
If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
PUBLISHER:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0147712556
ISBN-13:
9780147712554
BINDING:
Multiple-component retail product, boxed
BISAC:
Poetry
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1999
NUMBER OF PAGES:
1264
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
3.54(H) x 5.86(W) x 8.67(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English